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I currently live in Reykjavik, on a lava plain which has been shaking, rattling and rolling for at least a month. Warnings are out to avoid rock climbing or hiking in remote areas.

Iceland is the meeting point of the North American tectonic plate and the European plate. They are drifting, and there is a visible rift. You can be standing in North America one minute, hop across and be in Europe. But as the plates move apart, the lava from below fills in the rift.....so the island is growing.

The first time I was here, it seemed to me this is a place in the very process of creation. Here on the Reykjanes peninsula, lava has moved into the upper crust of the earth’s surface...and somewhere south of here towards the airport, there’s going to be a change....probably a large leak above ground which will change the face of the peninsula. That’s what the quakes are all about....new creation, new ‘rock’ being formed.

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Stability is not being static. It is movement, even drastic movement, in context.

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Now I'm wondering if there might be something new to make of the "even the stones themselves would cry out" line in the Palm Sunday story.

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If you are not familiar with the song, "Jesus is the rock, and he rolls my blues away," google it up.

This has been a popular song at Camp McDowell, the Episcopal Conference Center in Alabama, for more than four decades. - Doug Carpenter

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A beautiful reminder that the Christian Way is a journey, and our faith is always forming, becoming.

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Thank you for the pictures and the reflection. Ghost Ranch is a special and, to me, sacred place.

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